CodeCraft School

I enrolled in the part-time full stack program and it was everything I wanted. I couldn't afford to quit my job to attend a bootcamp and this was the perfect program. The cost was very affordable. CodeCraft is great about your education but they add all sorts of other items - headshots, resume review, job search help, etc. 

This is a review a few months after graduating. I expected a lot more. I got very little. I felt like I was sold something that wasn't really there. 

I feel a review like this is needed so people looking into schools actually get a real opinion about it.

I wish I could say tons of good things as the people there were extremely nice and I made a lot of friends but reviewing the school is different than saying I had a good time.

Instructors: Erty and Dave are clearly knowledgeable teachers and understand the field. With that being said, there was a lack of structure and clear growing pains of a new company. Some days we would learn stuff, some mornings we didn't learn anything and kinda just sat there. There wasnt much access to instructors outside of class hours, just one weekend in particular during final projects.

Curriculum: Clearly needed work. Was not set up prior to the day or even cohort. The first two weeks were easy since no one knew anything, but the deeper the cohort got the less we knew what we were gonna get day to day. Should have spent a lot more time solidifying a real understanding of javascript, and not jumped into frameworks/libraries like they did. Jquery was introduced in about a 20 minute lecture and nothing really more than that. No real teaching of higher order functions and there was a lack of teaching how to code properly, with best practices i.e. not creating nested loops when possible and how to problem solve.

Job Assistance: zero. Two of the people who were there when I was a student were fired or quit and not a single member of code craft informed any students who were looking for jobs of this. There has been no help and I can count on one hand the people who obtained software engineer/jr roles after a few months of looking.

overall: I learned, but this could have easily been replaced by freecodecamp and other resources. I would honestly reccomend anyone truly interested in a bootcamp to look into learning on your own and applying to a more higher-level bootcamp that requires you to interview and come in with knowledge. That way your fellow students will be ~ the same level as you are and you will get way more out of the school. I still needed to put a ton of time into learning vanilla js to get to a level of a jr dev after code craft, and used free resources from other bootcamps and sites to do so.